At least with the previous fads (with exception of the "movie" movie parodies), there was something enjoyably silly about them. You can look back on them and see
something of worth, such as character because each team had their own little touches, their own little twists to try and get people parking their butts in front of the screen (sober or otherwise). They're more-or-less forgotten about, but people like digging up old trash to take a "fresher" look at them, hence the overabundance of video reviews looking back on old films that would've otherwise been forgotten or remained obscure cult classics.
Current Disney tries too hard to play things safe and by-the-numbers to the point they can't allow anything "out of line". That is what kills character, and that's what makes a film boring and forgettable. In a few years, we're going to start looking back on the commentary for the live-action
Beauty and the Beast and go, "Huh... why were we mad at this, again? What's there to even like, let alone be mad about?" and just continue to watch whatever the fuck we want. It's going to get super scummy the moment they start re-releasing these films alongside their counterparts in bundle packages (like they've been doing with the sequels), but I think by then everyone will have moved on to torrenting if not keeping their old home video copies.
Also the doll and figurine models of the current incarnations of Disney princesses and Star Wars and other shit are really creepy and then they wonder why they aren't selling.